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Birthday: Jul 12, 1921
Place of Birth: Valencia, España

Luis García Berlanga

One of the best known filmmakers in the world and director of some of the most famous films of Spanish cinema, tender in his vision of the characters, but satirical to the point of biting in his social analysis, clearly critical despite the censorship of the Franco regime. He was born in 1921 into a wealthy Valencian family. After the Second World War, he studied at the Escuela Oficial de Cine (IIEC/EOC), where he would later become a professor. There he met Juan Antonio Bardem, and together they made their first film. His narrative ability, together with the sharpness of his satire, bordering on nonsense, made him a popular filmmaker, but also valued by critics. Nevertheless, within his comic line he oscillates between tenderness and the grotesqueness of his choral comedies. Between both extremes are his first films, written in collaboration with Rafael Azcona, in which he develops a black humor, characteristic of both, corrosive denunciations of social hypocrisy and the death penalty. In recent years he was president of the Filmoteca Nacional de España and director of a collection of erotic novels and short stories.

Filmography
Movie Cast Year
La ley del cholo II 2000
El joven Berlanga Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) 2022
The First Look 2023
Erotic Stories Hombre del metro 1980
A Tied Blasé 1981
Calle Bardem Interviewee 2005
Streetcar for Sale Comprador de la baliza aerostática (uncredited) 1959
From Kuleshov to Berlanga Himself 2004
The Invisible Half: Luis García Berlanga's The Executioner Interviewee 2012
A la pálida luz de la luna Himself 1985
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons Self 2005
Las pirañas Film Buff 1967
Por la gracia de Luis Himself 2009
De mica en mica s’omple la pica Peris 1984
Enrique Herreros Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) 2011
October in Madrid 1965
Tuset Street Aparicio 1968
Sharon vestida de rojo Víctor 1969
Días de viejo color Mr. Marshall 1968
No somos de piedra 1968
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